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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

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Meanwhile, clinical trials for heart disease have been defunded, it's like the circle of ... well, not life.

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

The only time Trump EPA head Lee Zeldin cares about testing your water quality — to detect traces of lawful abortion pills in wastewater.

Deeply disturbing, abusive — and creepy.

Trump Finally Found a Stooge Willing to Go After Letitia James Donald Trump is one step closer to getting revenge on the New York attorney general.

Donald Trump's racism is the fundamental reason for his country-wide crusade. It’s no accident that his recent targets prominently include Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Al Sharpton, and Letitia James. He goes after all races, but Black Americans are disproportionately targeted. trib.al/yeBFhY3

S&P and Nasdaq Slump as Stocks Fall on Trump China Tariff Threat The S&P 500 slumped more than 2 percent for the first time in six months, rattling investors after a long stretch of gains.

The stock market slumped to its worst one-day showing since tariffs roiled markets in April, as President Trump threatened to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

If you've never encountered the details of these events in 1919 and are wondering how bad it could possibly be: its absolutely fucking awful. Genuinely, horrendous.

This is the guy they should arrest for incitement of violence.

The US was added to this list because Trump is stealing the civil rights of Americans.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

We’re investigating the Trump-Vance admin’s “compacts” that would give nine universities preferential treatment and funding in exchange for implementing measures that align with the admin’s ideological agenda.

“This appears to be nothing short of political extortion.” - @skyeperryman.bsky.social

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street.

He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

In all likelihood what’s happening all over the country is ICE getting a list of names and running a data broker search then scooping up every random Frank Miranda or Maria Lopez who might fit the details close enough. And that’s why they’re supposed to get fucking warrants.

Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

“Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said Wednesday that he and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a classified briefing this week, were denied access to the Pentagon’s legal opinion about whether the boat strikes adhered to U.S. law.”

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White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.

Masked ICE agents are running around the streets, storming buildings and indiscriminately pointing guns at people.

But if you look scared when you see an ICE officer that's suspicious.

Watch this clip. This cannot stand.

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Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

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How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Mob Boss Politics 101: Deploying the National Guard to yet another an American city and then threatening to jail your political opponents.

This isn’t keeping us safe. We have to reject Trump’s mob boss tactics of threats and intimidation.

This guy is in charge of US health care.

Scientists Find Evidence That a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Bucks County Beacon Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.

Scientists Find Evidence That a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking | Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water, reports @insideclimatenews.org.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

You Go Portland !!......